The New Hampshire ACLU is throwing down the race card in its support of convicted cop killer Michael Addison as he appeals his death sentence.

Addison, who murdered Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006, is preparing for a hearing in front of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, arguing that when the state repealed the death penalty in 2019, his sentence should have been changed, too.

The ACLU and a group of anti-death-penalty legal scholars are going further, arguing in an amicus brief that Addison’s race played a key role in the jury’s decision to put him on death row.

“[T]his Court should consider the legion of social science research explaining the ways that race likely contributed to the death sentence of a poor, Black man who did not ‘purposefully kill’ the victim,” wrote s

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